Charlie Austin on 06:45 - Jun 23 with 6820 views | bosh67 | A big step down under. Family lifestyle choice. Weather, economy, lifestyle, media opportunities all better than here. At 32 why not with a young family? Good luck to him. | |
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Charlie Austin on 07:00 - Jun 23 with 6780 views | WA_Hoop | All of which is not lost on Perth based me! It was more a comment on the 'quality' of the A League. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 08:04 - Jun 23 with 6596 views | joe90 | If I was going to Australia, Brisbane would not be on my list. Good luck to him. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 08:21 - Jun 23 with 6538 views | izlingtonhoop | Are you a Goth? A Brisbanian mate of mine once told me that Brizzy Goths really suffer for their convictions. Trench coats and panstick do not sit well with the climate. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 08:32 - Jun 23 with 6487 views | BklynRanger | I didn't want to insult the A League - but it does slightly undermine how insulted he said he felt when asked by Les if he was retiring. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 08:32 - Jun 23 with 6476 views | switchingcode | Nothing wrong with Brisbane( although I prefer Melbourne and Sydney )some great places to visit in that area.Western Sydney Wanderers are my Hyundai league side | | | |
Charlie Austin on 08:39 - Jun 23 with 6444 views | toboboly | Must be giving him the GDP of a small country. If he can't run over here how is he going to do it upside down? | |
| Sexy Asian dwarves wanted. |
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Charlie Austin on 08:40 - Jun 23 with 6441 views | BklynRanger | That's given me a legitimate chortle | | | |
Charlie Austin on 09:19 - Jun 23 with 6251 views | joe90 | The goths of my youth were for the most part a confused and musically illiterate bunch. Most of them appropriated a goth aesthetic but would listen to mainstream pop punk and a nu-metal. They would also be mislabelled as 'grunger's'. No I'm not a Goth, I'm more into shoegazing. [Post edited 23 Jun 2022 10:09]
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Charlie Austin on 09:31 - Jun 23 with 6180 views | WA_Hoop | Throw in the heat and some humidity and it will be slow motion in real time. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 09:32 - Jun 23 with 6168 views | Metallica_Hoop | Those Goths you speak of were not 'proper' Goths according to a girl I know. She used to go proper mental telling me how they used to turn up at 'slimelight' not knowing their poetry or Bauhaus (I'm generalising a bit but the argument was valid). I've kind of had the same when someone younger than me years ago, told me 'Load' is Metallica's best album. I tried very hard to empathise but what I really wanted to do was smash their head into the table and blast 'Ride the lightning' into their tiny mind WACO style. | |
| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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Charlie Austin on 09:33 - Jun 23 with 6157 views | joe90 | I only went because my friend was living there at the time. It seemed a boring and unattractive city. On the same trip I ended up accidentally staying in Adelaide for about a week and really enjoyed. I'd never thought about going there and it turned out to be really unusual and unlike anywhere I'd been before. Definitely won't be going back, but it did leave an impression. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 09:42 - Jun 23 with 6118 views | daveB | When you see his options over here were the likes of Reading etc it's a great move for him and his family. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 09:47 - Jun 23 with 6091 views | Tonto | I just hope he likes creepy crawlies. a friend who emigrated there years back wrote on Facebook after about 5 years of being there "the insects never fail to scare the bejesus out of me". the accompanying photo scare the bejesus out of me! | |
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Charlie Austin on 09:53 - Jun 23 with 6063 views | izlingtonhoop | Oh yeh. Another Northerner I once worked with, a very attractive young woman, but that's by the by, told me of getting up for breakfast to discover a massive snake smashing up the microwave... | | | |
Charlie Austin on 09:54 - Jun 23 with 6053 views | Toast_R | I actually thought Brisbane was my favourite Australian city out of the ones I visited but that was nearly 20 years ago. Tell him not to go inwards towards Stanthorpe. That was a strange town. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 10:16 - Jun 23 with 5965 views | ted_hendrix | I thought Perth was fabulous. | |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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Charlie Austin on 10:30 - Jun 23 with 5892 views | Myke | Keep forgetting he is only in his early thirties - must be the way he played last season that convinces me he's 37/38 | | | |
Charlie Austin on 10:45 - Jun 23 with 5827 views | Juzzie | That conjures up a mental image of Kaa with a hammer going bat sh*t crazy on the microwave! | | | |
Charlie Austin on 10:53 - Jun 23 with 5784 views | Boston | Snakes, they're not just for breakfast. | |
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Charlie Austin on 11:13 - Jun 23 with 5725 views | simmo | Looks about right tbh, America or Oz seemed the only real options. He's not playing on just for the love of the game and he's still a luxury player, so lower leagues are out. | |
| ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead |
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Charlie Austin on 11:55 - Jun 23 with 5609 views | enfieldargh | What's the problem with flying scorpions? | |
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Charlie Austin on 12:09 - Jun 23 with 5565 views | ozexile | I hope someone's told Austin that they play in the Oz Summer. He was blowing out of his backside playing in 10 degrees Celsius. Imagine him at 40 degrees. | | | |
Charlie Austin on 12:19 - Jun 23 with 5520 views | derbyhoop | Brisbane wouldn't be my choice in Aus. Prefer Adelaide, Melbourne and family in Sydney. | |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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Charlie Austin on 12:45 - Jun 23 with 5435 views | Lblock | Good luck to him. Fantastic servant to the club. I’m gutted his return didn’t end in promotion (again) and obviously last season and the ending a little bit sour. He’ll always have my respect…. But of ribbing about him not being Bolt at the end is fine. Fair go Charlie mate | |
| Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal |
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